Skip to Main Content
Software Project Management in Practice
book

Software Project Management in Practice

by Pankaj Jalote
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Software Project Management in Practice

4.1. ESTIMATION AND SCHEDULING CONCEPTS

Before we discuss the approach taken at Infosys, this section describes some concepts relating to estimation and scheduling. Effort estimation usually takes place in the early stages of a project, when the software to be built is being understood. It may be redone later when more information becomes available.

Highly precise estimates are generally not needed. Reasonable estimates in a software project tend to become a self-fulfilling prophecy—people work to meet the schedules (which are derived from effort estimates). Indeed, in software projects, one cannot even precisely answer the question, “Is this estimate accurate?” because the only way to ascertain the accuracy of an estimate is to compare it with ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Software Project Management

Software Project Management

Dutt, Chandramouli
Quality Software Project Management

Quality Software Project Management

Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda I. Safer
Software Project Management For Dummies®

Software Project Management For Dummies®

Teresa Luckey, Joseph Phillips

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0201737213Purchase book